{"id":2512,"date":"2012-06-19T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:24:14","slug":"son-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2512\/son-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;son of man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I have a question, I have been reading in Matthew and noticed that Jesus referred to himself a lot as the son of man. What is it that he is referring to? Is it because he was born of man? that he is the son of man? I looked up a lot of places where the son man was used and God referred to Ezekiel a lot as son of man, is it just of the flesh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Stuart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> =============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Stuart, the Son of God is referring to the Son of Mary part of himself. In heaven with the Father, he certainly was never called &#8220;the son of man&#8221;. God also addresses Ezekiel as &#8220;son of man&#8221; quite often, as you said. The phrase in Ezekiel just means, &#8220;human&#8221;. It is, of course, very unusual for the Son of God to call himself that, but then, what was NOT unusual about what the Son of God did and said?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, I have a question, I have been reading in Matthew and noticed that Jesus referred to himself a lot as the son of man. What is it that he is referring to? Is it because he was born of man? that he is the son of man? I looked up a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}